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How Common is your Birthday?

Interesting how February 14 stands out in an otherwise less common month. I’m wondering if couples with due dates +/- say 3 days of Feb 14 choose to have their baby delivered on Feb 14 to have a Valentine’s Day baby.

(Tina, please note that I know Tilo was born in February 14 and I’m in no way insinuating you did that! Just an observation from this visual chart.)

I notice the horizontal band of fewer-births on the 13th! Not sure where the data come from, but perhaps people actually born on the 13th report their birthdays as being on the 12th or the 14th? Best wishes to all.

Look at July 4th…the one empty spot in a month of birthdays. As soon as I saw that I guessed it was only using US data! My guess is that people who can (C-sections/induction?) avoid delivering on that day because of the holiday.

Yup, I can see the influence of the medicalization of birthing through those stats… What are the odds, statistically, that (unscheduled, unprovoked) birth rate is so much lower during the holidays? Lots of C-sections, of doctors saying “I won’t be there for your birth if we don’t induce”, of “Your birth/pregnancy is taking too long, we have to intervene” in there. Proof? More C-sections of Fridays and around 5PM than any other time in the week/day. Somebody wants to have their evenings and weekends free, I guess.

Amazing how many people avoid the holidays somehow. July 4, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are very light compared to the days around them. But Valentine’s Day and St Patricks day are a little bit darker. Very interesting…

I am laughing at the people who think the WOMEN/BABIES are choosing not to birth on holidays! It’s not “amazing” how people avoid holidays…birth in this country is sadly medicalized when it comes to when a woman is “due.”

Interesting, I didn’t think there’d be this drastic of a pattern.
The big drop in births on July 4-5 says something about americans, if something was put together of canadian births I don’t think there’d be as big of a drop for July 1st.